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When we speak of Heaven,
we mean something else.
When we speak of the Lord God,
we mean something else.
When we speak of the Saviour,
the Prohpet, the Buddha, the Messiah,
we mean something else.
When we sacrifice, make obeisance,
transubstantiate, bow, kneel,
or in silence and aloneness with tear-b...

I was the heifer of the prize cow, "Beauty,"
The son of the plow team's strongest bull.
I was born to rut, tread mud, tote burdens.
Out of the grey haze of smells that sparked me,
Shooting my impulses this way and that,
One day a gray man, odd smell, came walking:
Made words over me, sound...

Many of the problems that beset us today – the alienation and othering both in our societies and in our psyches; the sundering and undermining of the full experiencing of Being and the resultant resentments, frustrations and confusion, public and private – can be traced, in part, back to the fal...

Dogs, dogs, dogs, dogs,
the street is filled with dogs,
Fetid and hot, thin and barking,
And the damn sun is in my eyes.
What if voluptuous pleasure
Was the first thing ever made?
What if instead of superflux
It was bedrock, breath and blood?
I can’t bear the sight of this street any longer:
Hawke...

Silber also makes a broader point whose stinging truth should – but won't – spread across the "progressive" movement. As Silber notes, the Republicans proudly champion torture, Hitlerite aggressive war, and iron-fisted domestic tyranny; they think such things are good. The Democrats, in contrast, say they oppose all this, that such things are evil. Yet they do not and will not act to fight against these things. Given this undeniable fact, Silber poses the question:

So which is worse? Those who support evil, but insist they believe it is good? Or those who support evil while claiming, at least some of the time, that they actually know it is evil?

This is, as Silber notes, a distinction without much difference in these darkening times; the first order of business is not to parse partisan characteristics but to halt the onslaught of evil that is emanating from and being exacerbated by both parties. But the formulation does help us see the Democratic "leaders" more clearly. When you support them, you are supporting a knowing collusion with evil. If that's the kind of country you want -- well, you've got it. If not – what are you going to do about it?

Let's be clear about the stakes [of the impeachment maneuvers] here. First, if anyone in Washington recognized the scope of the worldwide catastrophe that would almost certainly result from an attack on Iran, they would realize that impeachment of both Bush and Cheney is the strongest means of trying to prevent that eventuality...Second, the long list of indisputable crimes committed by the Bush administration -- aggressive, criminal war, explicit and systematic adoption of torture as a normalized means of warfare and of government policy, rendition, secret prisons, and all the rest -- demands impeachment. Impeachment is the least that key members of this administration deserve.

But the Democratic leadership of the House doesn't want to even debate Kucinich's resolution. The Republicans tried to make them -- because the Republicans understand, in the way that repellent, nauseating slugs sense these things about other repellent, nauseating slugs, that the Democrats have no convictions that matter to them, and that the Democrats are incapable of making a principled argument about anything. The Republicans knew that these Democrats would "look bad" -- which they certainly would have. People devoid of conscience, lacking in all principles, unable to grasp the most overwhelmingly significant truths of our time, and as stupid as human beings can be while still managing to breathe will undoubtedly "look bad" in such circumstances.

This is where we've come: two criminal gangs run the United States from Washington. Neither of them understands the supreme and sacred value of an individual human life. Neither understands any matter of principle relating to liberty or peace. Both of them are intent upon power, no matter how many innocent people must die, and regardless of how many countries must be destroyed, including our own.